Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Problems with the current GIT source for Gnu Radio

[Tom Rondeau]

On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 12:37 AM, Marcus D. Leech <address@hidden> wrote:

On 04/09/11 12:21 AM, Josh Blum wrote:
>
>> That appears to be exactly the cause!  And would explain why
>> rolling-back my local gnuradio clone to before 2011-08-22 had no
>>   effect, since it was caused by pkg-config (via the
>> autoconf/automake/configure chain) putting all that extra (and wrong) goop
>>   into UHD_LIBS.
>>
>>
> 1) It looks like autotools is sucking Libs.private and Requires.private
> to determine the flags. Is that the correct behavior?
>
> I suppose that its up the build system, but on your platform (most linux
> i assume), explicit linking of nested dependencies isnt needed. So that
> why I think the pc files *.private stuff should be left out in this case.
>
> http://people.freedesktop.org/~dbn/pkg-config-guide.html#concepts
>

It looks like the autotools emit the --static option on pkg-config
--libs, which
 will always include the Libs.private stuff from the .pc file, it seems.

Glad that's been cleared up for now. With the conference coming up and everything else I need to do, this is going to have to go onto the stack for now. Might wait until we see about the cmake switch-over, too, before revisting these issues and working them out.

Tom